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Historical and future trends in flash drought ratio and onset speed of subseasonal droughts averaged over the IPCC SREX regions. https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/presentation-at-the-google-flood-forecasting-workshop monthly 0.5 2023-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/aa4abf7f-7ce0-4df2-9293-bfda1a2258c3/Screenshot+2023-04-04+at+08.15.52.png News - Presentation at the Google Flood Forecasting Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/new-version-of-the-african-flood-and-drought-monitor-live monthly 0.5 2022-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/2dd92419-a2d9-41f3-8c7e-b2cd1b4a4909/afdm_screenshot_2.png News - New version of the African Flood and Drought Monitor live… - Make it stand out African Flood and Drought Monitor (AFDM) https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/predicting-country-crop-yields-at-field-scale monthly 0.5 2021-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1618163110181-69IY7CZU2D3BEHG368YZ/figure_vergopolan_zambia_yields_1.png News - Predicting crop yields at field scale across Zambia Figure 1. Mean April values (2000–2018) of soil moisture at 30-m spatial resolution, as simulated by HydroBlocks land surface model. April root zone soil moisture was the most predictive variables in the ML model. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1618163270693-OS6QRQET1QIJWYL3687Q/figure_vergopolan_zambia_yields_2.png News - Predicting crop yields at field scale across Zambia Figure 2. The most important predictors for maize yield at the district-scale. The predictors were selected and ranked via Recursive Feature Elimination, with the importance rank shown in terms of delta R . Results are shown for case 1 (considering all the variables), case 2 (without precipitation and air temperature predictors), and case 3 (without soil moisture and soil temperature predictors). Each color represents different categories of predictors data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1618163388371-IJPUCIOG08WO0LAILBZV/figure_vergopolan_zambia_yields_3.png News - Predicting crop yields at field scale across Zambia Figure 3. Annual maize yields (a), coefficient of variation (d), and maize yield trends (g) for the period between 2000–2018 estimated using a random forest model. Each zoom panel (b, c, e, f, h, i) shows the respective estimates at a 250-m resolution for a 50-km x 50-km area. https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/seasonal-forecasting-of-drought-conditions monthly 0.5 2020-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1593964988630-K0AIA6IEAIMDGOLQ17NT/seasonal_forecast_drought_europe.png News - Seasonal forecasting of drought conditions Figure 1. Example forecast of streamflow across Europe for the extreme drought and heatwave of August 2003, initialised on July 1st. The data are available from the EDgE project at http://edge.climate.copernicus.eu/ https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/project-one-llaxa monthly 0.5 2020-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1593943802678-JKXSPTX7ST1Q1HE7Y4PO/global_drought_risk_short_term_bams.png News - Mapping global drought risks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1593943805750-MYS85OH4UTAK89252ELG/global_drought_risk_medium_term_bams.png News - Mapping global drought risks https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/project-three-kblbn monthly 0.5 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1593944988396-9IXPMSSE22IQ6TLE9044/flood_risk_map_landsat_burundi.png News - Flood risk mapping: from local to global Figure 1. Flood risk mapping for Bujumbura, Burundi (central Africa) showing the number of times that each 30-meter pixel has been flooded in the last 40 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1593945026519-XHNQPZF8TZLIL7N9WW67/global_flood_risk__50yr_bams.png News - Flood risk mapping: from local to global Figure 2. Annual maximum fractional flooded area for different 50-year return period (a flood with a 2% probability of occurrence) estimated from CaMa-Flood model simulations and GEV distribution statistical modelling. https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/forecasting-flooding-from-cyclone-idai monthly 0.5 2020-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1594154901225-666R469HHJ9NIWXTDTI8/a_maps_01_20190312.gif News - Forecasting flooding from Cyclone Idai Figure 2. Monitoring (right) and forecasting (left) the flooding associated with Cyclone Idai. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1593947077687-H54310ERIF4NBZ3YTV36/idai_viirs_201970.jpg News - Forecasting flooding from Cyclone Idai Figure 1. NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. https://www.princetonclimateinstitute.org/news/project-two-srnk2 monthly 0.5 2020-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eff5c625206ef2e13b1a355/1593945332751-64TRGZPJBGKUU0W6A17D/drought_risk_future_europe.png News - Future drought risk under climate change Figure 1. 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